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Elbert <elbert.clarke**@us.army.mil> wrote:
>
>I know they make some auxillery heaters that you can plumb into the
>cooling system but that would be a pain in the rear. Some of the big
>trucks (peterbilt and kenworth) offer this option... Its basically a
>small heater that mounts in the floor right behind the drivers seat.
>Has a small heater core thats plumbed to the cooling system and a
>electric fan that blows across the core. Not sure I would want that
>on a jeep...
>
>Easy way out might be to upgrade alternator and go with a ceramic
>heater.. I've never used a ceramic heater so I don't know if they are
>worth having or not.
>
>Maybe you could come up with some way of running a duct from the
>heating system back under the front seats to feed hot air to the
>rear??
Things to think of, using an aux heater core would be using heat engery
that is already there, adding a ceramic heater = more power draw from the
alt = more gas that is not going to moving your jeep.
Places to look for the aux heaters are old bus's. One that I scraped had
3 of them in it. All they need is hot water and 12v power. The plumping
is not that hard, you have lots of room to do it, and not that far to go
in a jeep.
~Brian
Elbert <elbert.clarke**@us.army.mil> wrote:
>
>I know they make some auxillery heaters that you can plumb into the
>cooling system but that would be a pain in the rear. Some of the big
>trucks (peterbilt and kenworth) offer this option... Its basically a
>small heater that mounts in the floor right behind the drivers seat.
>Has a small heater core thats plumbed to the cooling system and a
>electric fan that blows across the core. Not sure I would want that
>on a jeep...
>
>Easy way out might be to upgrade alternator and go with a ceramic
>heater.. I've never used a ceramic heater so I don't know if they are
>worth having or not.
>
>Maybe you could come up with some way of running a duct from the
>heating system back under the front seats to feed hot air to the
>rear??
Things to think of, using an aux heater core would be using heat engery
that is already there, adding a ceramic heater = more power draw from the
alt = more gas that is not going to moving your jeep.
Places to look for the aux heaters are old bus's. One that I scraped had
3 of them in it. All they need is hot water and 12v power. The plumping
is not that hard, you have lots of room to do it, and not that far to go
in a jeep.
~Brian
